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We introduce a notion of viscosity solutions for a general class of elliptic-parabolic phase transition problems. These include the Richards equation, which is a classical model in filtration theory. Existence and uniqueness results are…
We prove the Aleksandrov--Bakelman--Pucci estimate for non-uniformly elliptic equations in non-divergence form. Moreover, we investigate local behaviors of solutions of such equations by developing local boundedness and weak Harnack…
We collect examples of boundary-value problems of Dirichlet and Dirichlet-Neumann type which we found instructive when designing and analysing numerical methods for fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. In particular, our…
In this paper, we study regularity estimates for a class of degenerate, fully nonlinear elliptic equations with arbitrary nonhomogeneous degeneracy laws. We establish that viscosity solutions are locally continuously differentiable under…
We consider different notions of solutions to the $p(x)$-Laplace equation $-\div(\abs{Du(x)}^{p(x)-2}Du(x))=0$ with $ 1<p(x)<\infty$. We show by proving a comparison principle that viscosity supersolutions and $p(x)$-superharmonic functions…
In this article we study singular subelliptic $p$-Laplace equations and best constants in Sobolev inequalities on nilpotent Lie groups. We prove solvability of these subelliptic $p$-Laplace equations and existence of the minimizer of the…
In this paper, we prove a form of the strong comparison principle for a class of fully nonlinear subelliptic operators of the form $\nabla^{2}_{H}\psi+L(\cdot,\psi,\nabla_{H}\psi)$ on the Heisenberg group, which include the CR invariant…
In this work, we establish sharp and improved regularity estimates for viscosity solutions of Hardy-H\'{e}non-type equations with possibly singular weights and strong absorption governed by the $\infty$-Laplacian $$ \Delta_{\infty} u(x) =…
In this paper we study an evolution equation involving the normalized $p$-Laplacian and a bounded continuous source term. The normalized $p$-Laplacian is in non divergence form and arises for example from stochastic tug-of-war games with…
In this article we prove some Lipschitz estimates and existence result for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations which are a generalization of the pseudo p-Laplacian. The operators are degenerate elliptic at any point…
In this paper we study Liouville-type properties for a class of degenerate elliptic equations driven by the fractional infinity Laplacian with nonlinear lower-order terms, \[ \Delta_\infty^{\beta}u - c\,H(u,\nabla u) - \lambda\, f(|x|,u)=0…
We develop a new, unified approach to the following two classical questions on elliptic PDE: the strong maximum principle for equations with non-Lipschitz nonlinearities, and the at most exponential decay of solutions in the whole space or…
We extend the results of [5], where we proved an equivalence between weighted Poincar\'e inequalities and the existence of weak solutions to a family of Neumann problems related to a degenerate $p$-Laplacian. Here we prove a similar…
General potential theories concern the study of functions which are subharmonic with respect to a suitable constraint set (called a subequation) in the space of 2-jets. While interesting in their own right, general potential theories are…
In this paper we study a non-homogeneous Neumann problem, where the $p(x)$-Laplacian is involved and $p=\infty$ in a subdomain. By considering a suitable sequence $p_k$ of bounded variable exponents such that $p_k \to p$ and replacing $p$…
We prove that any nonnegative viscosity solution of the inequality $$(-\Delta_p)^s u(x) \geq u^{t} |\nabla u|^{m}\quad \text{ in }\; \mathbb{R}^N,\; N\geq 2,$$ must be constant. This result holds for parameters $p\in (1, \infty), s\in (0,…
We establish a superposition principle in disjoint variables for the inhomogeneous infinity-Laplace equation. We show that the sum of viscosity solutions of the inhomogeneous infinity-Laplace equation in separate domains is a viscosity…
The paper treats second order fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations having a family of subunit vector fields satisfying a full-rank bracket condition. It studies Liouville properties for viscosity sub- and supersolutions in the…
We prove boundary H\"older and Lipschitz regularity for a class of degenerate elliptic, second order, inhomogeneous equations in non-divergence form structured on the left-invariant vector fields of the Heisenberg group. Our focus is on the…
We consider the nonlinear Neumann problem for fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs on a quadrant. We establish a comparison theorem for viscosity sub and supersolutions of the nonlinear Neumann problem. The crucial argument in the proof of the…